Jacob Sends Sons to Egypt

Genesis 42:1-5

Now Ya'akov saw that there was grain in Egypt; so Ya'akov said to his sons, "Why are you staring at each other?

Look," he said, "I've heard that there's grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us from there, so that we can stay alive and not die!"

Thus Yosef's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt,

except for Binyamin, Yosef's brother. Ya'akov did not send him with his brothers, because he was afraid something might happen to him.

The sons of Isra'el came to buy along with the others that came, since the famine extended to the land of Kena'an.